Trace-buckle



(No Model.)

J. HEMIBIGTODI.

'TVRAGE BUCKLE.

No. 327,166. .Patented SeptQZQ, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HERRINGTON, OF CHARLES CITY, IOVA.

TRACE-BUCKLE.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,166, dated September 29, 1885.

Application filed May 25, 185355. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HEREINGTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Charles City, inthe county of Floyd and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace Buckles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved trace-buckle, and embraces the following features: A buckleframe consisting of side bars having strapeyes and a forward, middle, and rear crossbar, and of atongue plate eccentrically hinged by side lugs to said frame, and having a buckletongue projecting inwardly and j ust behind the said forward cross-bar, and also a tug-link consisting of curved side bars connected by a round tug-bar and a rear link-bar, all of which and their purposes are hereinafter more fully described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which likeletters designate identical parts of my invention in the different iigures respectively.

' Figure 1 is an outside or front view of my device, showing the tug and trace linked and buckled thereto. Fig. 2 is an inside or back view of the same. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 4. is a side elevation of the same, showing the tug-link and buckleframe pressed outwardly toward each other, the tongue-plate turned back, and the trace partially drawn from the buckle.

The letter A designates the said buckleframe, which, together with said tug-link, is

made of suitable metal formed in the shape shown, and consists of the round-edged side bars, a, having the strap-eyes b, into which y to loop the side straps and belly-band, of the tongue or stud iis thrust into either of its trace-eyelets. Said cross-bars cand f are made as ilatly wide as possible and on thesame plane,

in order to firmly support the trace on an even line,when said tongue-plate is turned forward and pressed upon it, as hereinafter described.

The tug-link B consists of the curved side bars, m, and the end bars, n and r, around the former of which the haine-tug is looped,while the latter bar is made, byits backward-curved 6o side bars, to be introduced between said side bars, a, and just behind the forward bar, c, of the buckle-frame and linked over the tongueplate of the same, in order to couple the hametug T with said buckle A and with the trace S, as shown. When said tug and trace are buckled together in said frame and straightencd out, they will press closely and evenly together forward of the buckle, and the head of said trace will remain 'secured within the 7o boX-loop Z of said tug, from which and the buckle-tongue 'L' nothing can displace it,except intentional removal, which manipulation is performed as follows: The tug loop-bara and said frame rear bar, d, are together forced inward toward each other on the curve shown by the dotted lines, respectively drawn from each of said bars in Fig. 3, which combined movement simultaneously displaces the forward end of the trace S from the box-loop Zand So thrusts the tug-link B curvedly backward and outward, and the rear end of the buckle-frame A curved inward and forward, thereby causing the said parts of my device to take the positions shown in Fig. 4, when the tongue-plate h is turned outward and backward, which .removes the tongue t and allowsthe trace to be entirely drawn from connection with said hame-tug and buckle.

Thus it will be readily seen that at least 9o three new and useful results are accomplished by the above-described construction and arrangement of said parts of my device, namely: that all of said elementary parts are readily, easily, and firmly adj usted together; that they, when so adj usted in place, lie closely, compactly, and unobstructively together and against the harnessed animals sides, and that said tug and trace are easily removed, when intentionally displaced from the buckle-frame, with` 10o out disturbing the rest of the harness, even when said animal is attached to a vehicle. Therefore VhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In the buckle herein described, the co1nbination,with the frame having the strap-eyed side bars, triple cross-bars, and the eccentrically-hinged tongue-plate provided with inwardly-projecting tongue, of the hanietug coupling-link having curved side bars, tuglooping cross-bar, and buckle-linking crossbar, and of the trace, the head of which is passed between the link-pressed tongue-plate and the evenly level cross bars beneath and vthrough the harne-tug box-loop, all substantially as and for the purposes herein speciiied.

2. In the buckle herein described, the corn- 

